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Acknowledgments

The author gratefully acknowledges the contributions and assistance of the following in preparing
this text: John Droske, Eli Pearce, Charles Pittman, Edward Kresge, Gerry Kirshenbaum, Sukumar
Maiti, Alan MacDiarmid, Les Sperling, Eckhard Hellmuth, Mike Jaffe, Otto Vogel, Thomas
Miranda, Murry Morello, and Graham Allan; and a number of our children who assisted in giving
suggestions for the text—Charles Carraher III, Shawn Carraher, Colleen Carraher-Schwarz, Erin
Carraher, and Cara Carraher—to Erin for discussions on materials, Cara for her help with the bio-
medical material, and to Shawn for his help in relating the business and industrial aspects. Special
thanks to Gerry Kirshenbaum for his kind permission to utilize portions of articles by me that
appeared in Polymer News. This book could not have been written if not for those who are ahead

of us in this field, especially Raymond Seymour, Herman Mark, Charles Gebelein, Paul Flory, and
Linus Pauling; all of these friends shepherded and helped me. My thanks to them.

I thank my wife Mary Carraher for her help in proofing and allowing this edition to be written.

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